Again The Week Ebbs Away

I've been thinking about Rav Hirsch's Toldot critique of Yitzchak and Rivkah for trying to put Yaakov and Eisav in the same box: ""As long as they were little, no attention was given to the latent differences between them. Both were given the same upbringing and education. The basic tenet of education, 'Train each child in accordance with his own way' (Proverbs 22:6), that each child should be educated, both as a man and as a Jew, in accordance with the tendencies latent in him and in accordance with the individuality that will result from these tendencies, was forgotten."

Rabbi Abraham Twerski notes that the second half of the line, "Train each child in accordance with his own way" often goes unquoted. King Solomon concluded, "...then, even when he is old, he will not turn from it." He explains that if you superimpose something on someone else then then will throw it off when they are able to do so. But if you bring out their inner truth that will stay with them forever.

I noticed that the same word is used for Yitchak praying and G-d responding, how Diveinely poetic. Similarly, at the start of Va'Etchanan, Moshe asks to enter Israel with the same word used for G-d's saying no.

Sunset approaches, again and again, recurring reality, loss of light - it's re-emergence, then, again, loss.

How does time move? Clearly by plane, faster than Concord and prettier.

Always I am running to catch her and she is calm, never late, never off track.

Because G-d had to create and He had to stop, so too we.

Burnt offerings are no longer our thing? What kind service works for us today?

Always there is love.

The candles burn, we can fix what is broken.